http://slashdot.org/articles/04/04/07/1515209.shtml?tid=126&tid=95 "On April 7th, 1969, the first ever RFC was published, describing the networking technology behind the then-nascent ARPAnet. In the intervening 35 years, networking technology has come a long way, but it brings perspective to the modern Internet to reflect on how it all began." http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1.html